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A report released Thursday concludes disdain for journalists throughout the world has increased during the past year, due primarily to the behavior of authoritarian leaders.

Devastating flooding in three quarters of Iran’s provinces has affected 10 million people, of whom 2 million are severely impacted and 500,000 displaced – half of them are children. Over 1,000 health facilities and 1,000 schools have been destroyed or severely damaged forcing 100,000 children out of school and depriving thousands of essential healthcare.

Migrant children walk outside a detention centre located in Tripoli, Libya.

Save the Children, UNICEF and partners have successfully reunited 6,000 children with their families after years of separation due to conflict. This is a milestone for the Family Tracing and Reunification (FTR) programme in South Sudan since the first reunification of 420 children in 2014.

A disabled man operates a mobile phone repair business in Sri Lanka.

Asylum-seekers from Nicaragua wait to file their applications at the immigration office in the capital of Costa Rica, San Jose (August 2018).

Virginia Gamba, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, briefs the Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East (Yemen).

UNICEF supporter and singer/songwriter Dua Lipa visits children at the Najedh Association, a local NGO, in the Bourj el Barajneh Palestinian camp in Beirut, Lebanon, April 14, 2019. UNICEF has been working with the Ministry of Education and Higher Education to improve access to formal education for both Lebanese and non-Lebanese children.

Sudanese protest organizers rallied their supporters to gather Monday outside of army headquarters in Khartoum, the capital, because the organizers said, there was an attempt to break up the days-long sit-in demonstration there.

The White House on Sunday, echoing President Donald Trump, said sending undocumented migrants to sanctuary U.S. cities that have protected them from deportation remains a possibility even though government agencies have said it would be impractical and there is no money allocated to do it.